[HN Gopher] The Queer Past Gets Deleted on eBay
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The Queer Past Gets Deleted on eBay
Author : xrd
Score : 22 points
Date : 2021-08-29 22:11 UTC (51 minutes ago)
(HTM) web link (www.newyorker.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.newyorker.com)
| serf wrote:
| it's not often that I can click a newyorker.com link and be
| greeted by a ball-sack screen-centre.
| rvz wrote:
| eBay's guidelines from [0] says what they allow and don't allow
| for this category.
|
| From [0]
|
| > Why does eBay have this policy?
|
| > We want to make adult items available to those who wish to
| purchase them and can do so legally, while preventing those who
| do not wish to view or purchase these items from easily accessing
| them.
|
| Do I also use the same _' private platform argument'_ here as
| well?
|
| [0] https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/prohibited-restricted-
| ite...
| tosstoyevsky wrote:
| Private platform for thee, but not for me!
| detaro wrote:
| I don't see where the article is saying that?
| tosstoyevsky wrote:
| Unbelievable! I can't believe that censorship isn't just for the
| things you disagree with!
| retrac wrote:
| Previous discussion was flagged:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28342431
|
| I would offer a defence of the New Yorker's slightly NSFW content
| here. With it they're slightly breaking the same taboo that has
| led to all this content being purged from eBay. I suppose it
| makes argument that it's of historical and artistic significance
| despite its explicitness. Most of early LGBT cultural artifacts
| are, perhaps unsurprisingly, heavily sexualized with no clear
| professional/nonprofessional boundary as we might see it today.
| And so it all goes on the ban list. From the porn, to the
| personal ads, to the interviews, op eds, advertisements, and news
| too. Because they were all bound up together in the likes of
| Drummer magazine.
| klyrs wrote:
| Nice article for the weekend, I think. While the thing that
| offends me mostdeg is that dudes in jeans made the cover of
| this leather magazine, I do think that a NSFW tag is
| appropriate for art like this, and for example, Courbet's
| "Origin of the World". Not that I'm a prude, just, I don't want
| somebody to get fired for clicking the wrong link.
|
| deg tongue firmly in cheek
| Animats wrote:
| _" The rival bidder was being paid to find erotic books on eBay
| and destroy them. "_
|
| Who's funding that?
| pjc50 wrote:
| It'll be the Christian Right again.
| swayvil wrote:
| A big part of being a totalitarian hivemind world-eater is
| contriving rationale for labeling things as "other". Which is to
| say, "enemy and/or food".
|
| Sexual practice is an obvious way to do that. So when the
| hivemind comes around, and you aren't a 1.8 kids center-of-the-
| bell-curve type sexualist, lookout!
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